Mayor Mike Bloomberg seems to think the NYPD is his own army, according to remarks he made at MIT Nov. 29.
About 5.38-million people in the country are HIV-positive, or 10.6 percent of population.
The United Nations has announced that Mexican mariachi music, Chinese shadow puppetry and poetic dueling competitions in Cyprus are among several cultural traditions that are both crucial to a living culture and are at risk of dying out, prompting moves to protect and encourage their practice. UNESCO has placed 19 new items on the Intangible Heritage List.
Following the example set by the Arab League and the U.S., Turkey on Wednesday slapped a series of economic and financial sanctions on Syria over the government's continued bloody crackdown on an eight-month uprising.
Between 1990 and 2010, the rate of poverty rate on the continent plunged from 48.4 percent to 31.4 percent; while the rate of indigence (extreme poverty) dropped from 22.6 percent to 12.3 percent.
British diplomats left Iran on Wednesday, a day after the embassy in Tehran was stormed by protestors.
Three prospective school teachers have appealed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to end discrimination against people with HIV after they said they were wrongly denied teaching jobs because their employers discovered they had the virus that causes AIDS.
Ministers from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan met in Kabul to strengthen cooperation against the opium trade. More than 90 percent of the world's opium comes from Afghanistan, with most of it transiting through Iran and Pakistan.
Rebel group al-Shabab raided a number of humanitarian organizations in Somalia on Monday, adding a militant exclamation point to their new ban on 16 aid agencies working in the famine-stricken country.
Syria’s membership in the League was also suspended.
A Kenyan court on Monday ordered the government to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir wanted by The Hague on genocide charges should he travel to the east African country where authorities failed to arrest him during his last visit.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) has begun in Durban, South Africa, where about 10,000 officials from 194 countries will meet in a bid to arrive at a new climate change deal.
The Arab League has given Syria an ultimatum and only 24 hours to decide between allowing observers into the country or facing harsh economic sanctions that would see the freezing of assets and the stoppage of all financial dealings.
Arab officials will prepare plans for sanctions against Syria on Saturday over its failure to let Arab League monitors oversee an initiative aimed at ending a violent crackdown on protesters seeking an end to President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
This is not charity, this is work, states the new slogan adopted by British designer Vivienne Westwood and the Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) for their collaborative collection.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has been accused of flip-flopping on a number of issues. So what are his political positions?
Honduras is believed to be a crucial stop on the route cocaine traffickers take from South America into Mexico and the United States.
Running battles flared in central Cairo on Wednesday even after Egyptian military police reinforced riot police guarding the Interior Ministry, a flashpoint for violence.
The world's largest backer of the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria said on Wednesday it was cutting new grants for countries battling the diseases and bringing in a new manager to ensure better administration.
On the fifth day of protests and rioting, the United Nations has condemned the violence and the use of excessive force by security forces.
However, the statement makes no mention of sanctions.
The comments come ahead of a United Nations climate treaty conference in Durban, South Africa next week.
